Feedback from Champlain Heights Beginner Session June 20th 2006
Amazing Class Lisa!
You provide an encouraging atmosphere and being made to feel that it was ok not to get it immediately!
Your patience and encouragement are appreciated.
You are a fun and friendly instructor.
When you improvise movements while teaching them; it helps to solidify learning the movement. Well done!
You encourage to experiment and make the movements our own.
You are very open to questions.
Truly supportive teaching environment true beginners. I am very comfortable and appreciate your passion and knowledge of Bellydance history
Love the class. I loose all sense of self-consciousness for 90 minutes!
You have a gentle approach encouraged me at my own pace. Thank you.
Totally love the class and will continue.
Turkish Oriental Workshop Participant Feedback January 17th, 2009 "You are a wonderfully enthusiastic and skilled teacher"
"Thank you - I feel I learned alot!"
"You are amazing! You always have something new to teach me! Don't ever change - keep the shimmy, the sass and those beautiful expressive eyes shining! Thank you for bringing the culture and history of this beautiful dance into your classes"
Turkish Oriental Workshop Feedback January 17th, 2009
"You are a wonderfully enthusiastic and skilled teacher"
"Thanks! Very Fun =)"
"Thank you - I feel I learned alot!"
"You are amazing! You always have something new to teach me! Don't ever change - keep the shimmy, the sass and those beautiful expressive eyes shining! Thank you for bringing the culture and history of this beautiful dance into your classes"
Turkish Bellydance Vancouver is Canada's only authentic professional school which teaches only Turkish Oriental, Turkish Folkloric and Roma Havasi dance styles
Available for Workshops - Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
SPRING 2010 CLASSES Fundamentals of Turkish Bellydance WorkshopMay 9th 2010 3 – 4 pm
Hosted by Ammara Studio
40 – Sixth Street, New Westminster, British Columbia
Register @ http://www.ammara.ca/
Students will learn the fundamentals of Turkish floorwork, travelling steps, layered shimmies and isolations, complex combination's, rhythm identification and finger cymbal mastery. Basic characteristics of Turkish Oriental and Roma dance. A set of finger cymbals (zills) are required for this class.
Fundamentals of Turkish Bellydance Workshop
Sunday, October 4 2009 3 – 4 pm
Hosted by Ammara Studio
40 – Sixth Street, New Westminster, British Columbia
Register @ http://www.ammara.ca/
Beginners Turkish Oriental Bellydance
TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FALL 2009
Mondays from 5:45pm - 7:15pm
Tentative Guest Instructor: Safreena Rajan
Belly dance is a timeless art form that is open to women of all ages, shapes and sizes. No exposed midriffs are required to belly dance. Students will emerge with strong and confident foundation in Turkish Oriental belly dance movements, techniques, posture, expression and stage presence. Basic characteristics of Turkish Oriental and Roma dance. No previous dance experience is required.
Register at for all Turkish Bellydance Vancouver classes at:
Champlain Heights Community Centre
3350 Maquinna Drive Vancouver, BC V5S 4C6
Registration Tel: (604) 718-6575
Costs to be determined by the Community Center. Please inquire directly with the centre
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/parks/cc/champlain/index.htm
Private Instruction - By Appointment Only infoATturkishbellydance.ca www.turkishbellydance.ca
Turkish Bellydance Vancouver - Facebook Group
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A Brief Summary of Turkish Oriental Dance Styling
Courtesy of Elizabeth Artemis Mourat
Sourced from: http://www.serpentine.org/artemis/turkishdance.html
"This wonderful dance, whose parentage boasts of the Rroma (Gypsies) of Turkey, the harems of the sultans and the turn of the century theaters of Istanbul continues to thrive in Turkey and now in Europe and the United States. Turkish Oriental dance is similar but less refined than its Egyptian sister dance form. It is less elegant but not less articulate. What it lacks in composure and predictability, it makes up for with spontaneity and passion. Both styles are expressive, playful and sometimes introspective. The Turkish dance is assertive, passionate and sometimes even indifferent. It is far more energetic and sometimes has a bouncing or hopping aspect to it".
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